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Re:Almond: An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant by t0astbread on Friday November 29, 2019 @11:23AM (#21665215)
From what I can tell it's available as actual software running on your device instead of an online service. Additionally, it seems to be fully free software.
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Re:Almond: An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant by eis on Friday November 29, 2019 @11:41AM (#21665310)
From what I can read in the privacy policy, speech recognition is performed via an API from Microsoft. So it's both online, cannot be considered fully free software (as a major part is performed by a closed API) and I'd hesitate to call it privacy preserving. At least when using the voice command feature. Written commands should be offline, private and done by open source I think.

Someone please tell me I'm wrong.

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